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war-ravaged syria is sounding an alarm over growing food shortages. bread essential to the diet. 70% ofheir bread needs are not being met president as said is assad deliberately targeting the fo chain targeting delivery vans, sending up food prices. we have the former ambassador to to robert hunter. welcome to the show, ambassador hunter. we appreciate your time here. >> good to be with you. memelissa: i thought a lot of facts were disturbing and shocking not more so than anything else going on in syria. land is noteing farmed because of shell fire. there is lack of fertilizer. tanks have deliberately destroyed the irrigation canals and the army i stopping workers from getting to the lnd to farm it. so obviously this is extremely deliberate. >> yeah. this is a full-blown civil war being conducted by the government side by one of brutas we've seen in the middle east, you know, over the last 30 or 40 years. the father of the current president, for example, gassed an entire village and wiped them out about 35 years ago. so this individual who people thou
war-ravaged syria is sounding an alarm over growing food shortages. bread essential to the diet. 70% ofheir bread needs are not being met president as said is assad deliberately targeting the fo chain targeting delivery vans, sending up food prices. we have the former ambassador to to robert hunter. welcome to the show, ambassador hunter. we appreciate your time here. >> good to be with you. memelissa: i thought a lot of facts were disturbing and shocking not more so than anything else...
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Dec 25, 2012
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syria is breaking down. syria is not libya. syria is the middle of the levant. if syria breaks down it will spill over into jordan. it will spill over into iraq. it will spill over into lebanon. all these places are powder kegs waiting to explode. the russians have the responsibility to sit down with the international community and explain why they are still supporting this regime that is willing to use, it seems, chemical weapons against its own people and that's not the first time these weapons have been used against innocent people in the middle east. remember saddam in the '80s used them against the kurds killing thousands and thousands of people. melissa: no, this is terrifying and devastating. of course the home toll is tragic and something we can't comprehend. economic toll is huge as well. you talk about it spilling over into all these other countries. >> absolutely. if it spills over into these other countries we'll feel it here in our stock market. melissa: yeah. >> the situation in syria from a economic perspective is disasterous situation. in the las
syria is breaking down. syria is not libya. syria is the middle of the levant. if syria breaks down it will spill over into jordan. it will spill over into iraq. it will spill over into lebanon. all these places are powder kegs waiting to explode. the russians have the responsibility to sit down with the international community and explain why they are still supporting this regime that is willing to use, it seems, chemical weapons against its own people and that's not the first time these...
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egypt, bahrain, yemen, syria. the place, the place is really a mess and i don't think the administration's policies have been very effective. they oversold what they thought would happen in this part of the world. we have real challenges to american interests right there right now. adam: i don't know if you can answer this question in 30 seconds if you were president obama with egypt and syria falling apart, what do you do? >> oh gosh in 30 seconds. i don't know how you talk about that but you've to be proactive as opposed to reactive. you can't allow these things to kind unfold without taking, taking measures, economic, diplomatic, potentially militariliry little to shape the future of american interests in that part of the world. i can't go through all that in 30 seconds. you can't be reactive but you need to be proactive not assuming things will go your way. adam: peter brookes. hopefully we have a discussion in the future and things don't actually deescalate and become more of a problem in syria. have a great
egypt, bahrain, yemen, syria. the place, the place is really a mess and i don't think the administration's policies have been very effective. they oversold what they thought would happen in this part of the world. we have real challenges to american interests right there right now. adam: i don't know if you can answer this question in 30 seconds if you were president obama with egypt and syria falling apart, what do you do? >> oh gosh in 30 seconds. i don't know how you talk about that...
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respects we don't, given the climate we live in, given how volatile with terrorism, the situation in syria and taliban and al qaeda we have ask ourselves, what price do we want to pay to keep our safety? personally i don't think it is that big of an infringement on our privacy rights if we're taping these conversations. melissa: really? >> if it is to prevent terrorist attack. melissa: do you think it will prevent a terrorist attack if we have liening devices on subways, on buses, on planes, everywhere we go? >> well here's the point. if we can prevent one potential act of terrorism because we're taping conversations on a bus or a subway, then i think it is worth it. but here's the potential problem. what if information you talked about, for example, you're on the phone. you're giving out credit card information to buy something. and then somebody is listen to that tape and steal your credit card? then we're looking at mountains of lawsuits by people and that then gets into the issue talked about earlier, what is the cost of all this, all these lawsuits might mean a lot of money that will
respects we don't, given the climate we live in, given how volatile with terrorism, the situation in syria and taliban and al qaeda we have ask ourselves, what price do we want to pay to keep our safety? personally i don't think it is that big of an infringement on our privacy rights if we're taping these conversations. melissa: really? >> if it is to prevent terrorist attack. melissa: do you think it will prevent a terrorist attack if we have liening devices on subways, on buses, on...
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iraq managed to smuggle a lot of oil out through its northern territories through syria, et cetera. i wouldn't be surprised if iran is trying to do the same thing. of course most of the traffic along the persian gulf we can watch pretty carefully. we have a lot of rennaissance capability there. they could still get some out in small boats. theyould get some out to the north or through afghanistan. but of course the areas to their north and east are not very prosperous or not very good trade routes for a lot of oil. so my guess you'r right to have that concern but it is probably in the realm of, at most a couple hundred thousand brels a day, not going to compensate for the loss from the sanctions. melissa: what about this idea that their uranium enrichment for medical research purposes or energy use? i mean they always make that argument. is there any possibility that'she case in your opinion? >> no. because they're enriching much more than they would need. they of course never declared their enrichment sites until they were discovered by some kind of dissident group or s some other
iraq managed to smuggle a lot of oil out through its northern territories through syria, et cetera. i wouldn't be surprised if iran is trying to do the same thing. of course most of the traffic along the persian gulf we can watch pretty carefully. we have a lot of rennaissance capability there. they could still get some out in small boats. theyould get some out to the north or through afghanistan. but of course the areas to their north and east are not very prosperous or not very good trade...